I don't own Horton Hears A Who.

Lily sat at the table at the O'Malley's house looking around. She had known the family for a while now, but could still not get over how dang big the house was.

A few of the girls were sitting down too, talking to each other, and occasionally one or two would come down and put a present on the table.

Lily smiled, looking at all the presents, how awesome would it be, to receive 97 gifts?

Miss Sally O'Malley came down the stairs, putting her hair up.

"Happy Anniversary Miss O'Malley!" Lily said, giving her a huge smile.

"Thanks, let's just hope Ned didn't forget," Sally said, nervously laughing.

Which made Lily wonder if it had happened before…

"You've been married for 32 years now, shouldn't he remember?" Lily asked, half in reassurance for Miss O'Malley, and half actually wondering herself.

"He usually remembers," Sally said, seeming a little more assured, "After a few reminders," she added.

"So, are you going to go somewhere special?" Lily asked.

"Well, I really don't know. We usually go to the place where he proposed," Miss O'Malley said, blushing a bit.

"I wanna hear the story Momma!" Hooley yelled, running in the kitchen and jumping on the chair next to her mother.

"Me too!"

"Me three!"

Soon the kitchen was filled with 97 (Lily included) girls, all eager to hear the story of Ned's proposal to Sally. Sally smiled, it was obviously a tradition, and one she liked.

"Well, when I first met your father, I never imagined I would marry him," Sally started, and all the girls leaned in.

"I had always found him very funny though. He was always running into things, dropping things, or tripping. He was so accident prone, always being sent to the nurses office.

He always had a great attitude about it though. When we were in elementary school he was never very coordinated, but always tried his best. He would always smile whenever he fell, or ran into something. He always tried to pull it off. It never worked, but it was still funny." Sally said, laughing at the memories.

"When we got into Junior High, he was even worse, he had gotten a lot taller, and was always tripping. He had a crush on me, and always got teased for it, but he would always swear that one day I would fall for him. He just seemed to know we were perfect for each other…" she paused for a moment, smiling.

"He would always talk to me, and ask me how I was, he was a true gentleman. Once he tried to open a door for me, and ran face first into the door, but swore he was fine, and still held the door open with a bloody nose. He smiled the whole time, and even though it was obvious he was in pain, he still asked how my day was going."

"When we got into High School, he had 'grown into his body' I guess you could say. At least he wasn't all thin and gangly like in Junior High. A bunch of the girls started liking him, but he would tell them 'I'm sorry, but Sally is the girl who I'm going to marry'. That used to make me so mad, because I still just thought of him as my friend.

We had a lot of classes together, and when we had to do a science project together, we started hanging out a lot. Because of the project I was always going over to his house, and when it was over he seemed really sad. So, one day in the cafeteria I asked him what was wrong and he shouted out

'I LOVE YOU SALLY!'

I was so embarrassed that I ran out and cried. I didn't talk to him for two whole weeks, because I couldn't stand to face him. Then, he wasn't at school for a few days. I had hoped that it wasn't my fault, but the way his friends looked at me, I knew it was. So, I finally decided to go visit him, but his parents told me that he was sick.

I told them that I really had to see him, and they finally let me up to his room. He was curled up in a ball in bed, and crying. I felt so bad. He sniffed and turned over and froze when he saw me. He looked so sad that I started crying too. He jumped up so fast he fell, but got right back up and hugged me until I stopped crying.

I guess then I realized I loved him, but I had already hurt him, and I didn't want to do that again, so I tried to run away, but he stopped me, and told me…"

"Sally, I will marry you, and I don't care if I have to spend my entire life trying to get you to fall in love with me, I'll do it, and I don't care if you hate me right now, because I embarrassed you, sorry for that by the way, because I know that you are the only girl for me," Ned repeated, walking into the kitchen.

"And I told him I loved him too," Sally laughed, standing up and kissing her husband on the cheek.

"AW!" the 97 girls said, who all had huge smiles on their faces.

"And then I took her out to dinner 3 years later, and proposed," Ned smiled, wrapping his arm around Sally's waist.

"Ok girls, I'll be back later, be good for Jojo and Lily," Sally said, waving goodbye to her daughters.

Jojo came into the house, pushing some hair out of his eyes and washed the grease and oil off his hands from working on his music device up in the old Star Gazing tower.

"I heard the story of how your mom fell in love with your dad," Lily said, now the only one at the table. All the girls had run off to play.

Jojo rolled his eyes.

"You don't think it's cute?" Lily asked.

Jojo shook his head, sitting next to her.

"I think it's adorable!"

"So, if I did all that stuff, you would honestly marry me?" Jojo asked.

"Are you proposing?" Lily asked, completely serious.

"N-no! We're just kids!" Jojo stammered.

"I was joking, don't get so defensive!" Lily laughed (alliteration).

"Well Jojo, if you ever embarrassed me in front of the whole school, but were able to make me cry with just one look, and I was really in love with you. Yes, I would marry you," Lily said. "If you could keep me for that long," she said, flashing him a smile and walking out.

Jojo sat, there, stunned.

Had she just agreed to marry him later on in life?

Hey, wait a minute…

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IF I COULD KEEP YOU FOR THAT LONG?"

And all he got in response was laughter.

Ha ha, poor Jojo.

I love fluff, and I think that was some pretty adorable fluff.